WOBURN - In often combative testimony that drew a warning from the judge, the cousin of 2003 shooting victim Joseph McDaniel repeatedly denied the "KST" was a street gang as Eric Murray's murder trial continued Tuesday.

On the witness stand in Middlesex Superior Court, Anthony Campbell, now 28, verbally sparred several times with Murray's lawyer, Timothy Bradl, accusing him of playing word games and lying with his questions.

"You were in a gang, weren't you?" Bradl asked Campbell, who denied it.

"You were in the Kendall Street Thugs, weren't you?" Bradl asked Campbell, who again denied it.

"Or was it the Kendall Street Team?" Bradl asked.

"That's better," Campbell answered. "If that's considered a gang, half of the jurors are in a gang. We grew up together."

Murray, 37, is accused of shooting and killing McDaniel, who was 19, on Oct. 7, 2003, on Kendall Street in Framingham. Murray was convicted of first-degree murder in 2005, but the verdict was set aside after information about McDaniel's connection to the KST came to light in a 2007 federal indictment of several KST members. Bradl claims that Murray shot McDaniel in self-defense because he was afraid of him because Murray believed McDaniel was a gang member.

Campbell, who is McDaniel's younger cousin, told the jury that on the night of the shooting, he and McDaniel were hanging out with a group of other men on Kendall Street when McDaniel began walking to a nearby store to buy cigarettes. That's when Murray, with two other men, began walking down Kendall Street, and McDaniel met with Murray.

The pair began talking and then "the defendant pulled his gun out of his hoody and shot him. He shot him. Joe put his hands up, there were a couple of shots. They took off running. Joe stumbled back a couple of steps and fell. I asked him, 'Hey, you OK?' and he said, 'No, I've been hit.' "

Campbell said he and others put McDaniel in Campbell's car, and drove to MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, where McDaniel was pronounced dead. McDaniel never woke up in the car, Campbell said.

"He was probably already dead at that point," Campbell said.

When questioned by police that night, Campbell told them he did not witness the shooting. He said he drove to Kendall Street and found McDaniel on the ground. He told the jury that he was lying that night because that was the culture he lived in.

"You're not supposed to tell police what happened," he said. "You're not supposed to tell the police anything. That's the culture. I was young. I lied. I don't have a reason for it. I just did it."

He said he finally told the police the real story a day or two later after his mother, grandmother and aunt spoke to him.

Page 2 of 2 - "They told me 'this isn't a game'," said Campbell. " "This is real life. This is your family. This isn't some random person.' "

Bradl asked if Campbell was talking about "gang culture," and he denied it.

Throughout the cross examination, Campbell repeatedly interrupted Bradl's questions. At one point, Bradl asked if the original story was the real story.